517 research outputs found
Constraining a curvation with VEV
No full textSeto, Osamu. (2011). Constraining a curvation with VEV. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/118979
Fermi bubble excess from Higgs portal
No full textSeto, Osamu. (2013). Fermi bubble excess from Higgs portal. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/160572
Designs on “Old Seto” Porcelain
No full textIt is widely known that the porcelain ware called Ko (Old) Seto, produced in the Seto area around the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, shows the influence of Sung China in its shapes and designs. It has not been studied thoroughly, however, how the Chinese inspiration was accepted. Believing that such studies will be valuable, the author has made some researches on the subject. The existing pieces of the Old Seto ware are numerous, and ornamental designs on them cover a wide variety. The author chose, as the basis of his researches, jars and vases which are believed to be genuine and typical, and studied designs which appear frequently on these.
As space does not allow discussions on all individual pieces, the author herein reports only the results of his researches. Designs on them include those imitating ornaments of Chinese Lung-ch‘üan celadon and Ching-tê-chên pale-white porcelain (ying-ching) of the Southern Sung period, and of the Korean Kōrai (Koryo) celadon ; Chinese- and Korean-style ones to which Japanese-style motifs are added, or which are modified into Japanese style, and those consisting of Japnese-style motifs only. Through these designs the author found that they attest to considerably creative, original ideas of Seto potters.
It is evident that the Old Seto pieces were made during the last part of the Kamakura Period, but the chronological order of individual specimens is hard to tell ; it is therefore impossible exactly to describe how these designs developed. Nevertheless they are very significant from the viewpoint of designs in Japanese ceramics, and in Japanese handicrafts in general.
Pre-historic and proto-historic earthenwares are left out here. There are a few examples of Heian Period pottery which have ornaments in line-engraving, but the Old Seto ware has no ornaments either similar to or apparently derived from them. Furthermore, pottery pieces with decorative patterns prior to the Kamakura Period are mostly in shapes imitating those of metal objects, and their patterns, also following metal examples, are hardly ones peculiar to pottery. Designs on the Old Seto ware, however, are desings characteristic of ceramics, and are diferent in character from earlier ones. It cannot be denied that the tradition of the Sué Type Pottery of the Heian Period carried on partly into the Old Seto, but in decorative designs the Old Seto potters, instead of following old tradition, chose imported continental-style ornaments which they improved with their original ideas and which were laden with the vigorous spirit of the Kamakura Period of the warriors' rule. It is notable, too, that designs on the Old Seto ware are the first examples of pottery designs in the true sense of the term in Japan.
Comparison of Old Seto ornaments with designs in other fields of decorative arts is interesting. In lacquer art, the Kamakura-bori imitated the effect of the Chinese carved lacquer just as the Old Seto copied continental designs, but it did not achieve notable development. Designs in maki-e lacquer and in metalwork were traditional cnes flavoured with the taste of the time. Those on mirror-backs also adhered to tradition, though only a very few of them imitated Chinese Han-style mirrors of the Sung Dynasty. The novel designs in Old Seto discussed above are remarkable achievements of the then newly-risen ceramic industry in the Seto area.journal articl
RECENT SHIFT OF MANAGEMNT POLICIES OF THE SETO INLAND SEA, JAPAN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PROMOTION OF SATOUMI ACTIVITIES
No full text“The special law” on the environmental conservation of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan and governmental basic plan for the environmental conservation of the sea based on the law were both revised recently in 2015. Two major aims of the previous basic plan (1. conservation of water quality, 2. conservation of natural landscape) were reformed to broaden four new major aims (1. conservation and restoration of coastal environment, 2. conservation and appropriate management of water quality, 3. conservation of natural and cultural landscapes, 4. sustainable utilization of fish resources) in the revised basic plan. Historically, environmental management policy of the Seto Inland Sea had firstly made emphasis on water pollution control such as total pollution load control (TPLC). However, this kind of passive conservation policy is gradually being sifted recently to active conservation such as Satoumi which includes restoration of biodiversity, biological productivity, habitat and well balanced nutrient cycle between land and sea. Holistic approaches such as integrated coastal management (ICM), ecosystem-based management (EBM) and adaptive management were incorporated into new policy in Japan. These clear changes of management policies of the Seto Inland Sea will make change more detailed policy of every related prefecture and hence will promote Satoumi activities in near future.</jats:p
Storm surge in the Seto Inland Sea accompanied by Typhoons in 2004
No full textIn 2004, Seto Inland Sea coast suffered severe damages of storm surge. This area never experienced storm surge damage in recent half century and people were not ready for the storm surge. In two typhoons of T0416 and T0418, surge anomaly were more than 150cm in Bisan-Seto area. Storm surges appeared after the maximum approach of typhoon not only due to surface low pressure but also due to wind stress
as westerly. Because of geographical complexity of Seto Inland Sea, the surge process have not been well understood. Therefore, it is necessary to study the effects of the wind and the surface pressure using a numerical model. Atmospheric model MM5 and ocean model POM were used as a numerical experiment, including the astronomical tide model NAO.
Aｓ the results of numerical simulation of the storm surge, atmospheric conditions were well simulated but ocean model was rather complex. There are a lot of island in Seto Inland Sea and sea water movement in the model was very much influenced by the topography and wind stress effect appeared much smaller.
In the no-island model, storm surge height was a little improved. However the simulated surge height was still less than the observed height. Further improvement of the ocean model application should be considered in future studies
Navigating Digital Borders: Seto Community in the Virtual Territory of the VK Social Network
No full textReceived 30 September 2024. Accepted 5 March 2025. Published online 30 April 2025.The paper examines the digital geography of the virtual Seto community in the VK social network (also known as VKontakte), focusing on how dispersed Seto people in Russia and Estonia use digital spaces to communicate, as well as express, preserve, and promote their cultural identity. By applying a multi-sited ethnographic methodology, the research involves both online explorations and offline semi-structured interviews, with fieldwork conducted in the Pechory District. Using the network and territory approaches to digital ethnography, the study highlights how the VK serves as a digital territory where Setos, divided by distances and physical borders, connect, share cultural practices, and foster a sense of community. Special attention is given to the Seto traditions of leelo polyphonic singing and festive costumes, both of which serve as vital markers of ethnic identity in this digital landscape. Through content analysis of Seto personal profiles and public pages, the research reveals how social networks help maintain connections and how digital geographies are constantly shaped and reshaped by cultural exchanges. This study underscores the adaptability of online spaces in sustaining fragmented ethnic communities across physical distances.This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under Grant 23-78-10079, https://rscf.ru/project/23-78-10079/The author is grateful to the assistance of the Museum Reserve Izborsk, Manor Museum of the Seto people in the village of Sigovo, Pechory Museum of History, and the “Flax Province” Museum. The author is also highly appreciative of the valuable consultations and recommendations provided by Elena Variksoo, Tatiana Ogareva, Mare Piho, Malle Bogacheva, and Vera Fest
The experimental realism of William Dean Howells
No full textThe “experimental” in my title refers to Howells’s self-conscious development of a literary form that could give the most complete, deepest account of a reality characterized by the ordinary and even the banal. For the middle class, Howells’s perennial subject, the norm is to aspire to transcend, and the ordinary can appear elusive, even nonexistent. Of course, in political terms, a middle class culture considers everyone basically the same, this resemblance defining the ordinary. It is assumed that everyone shares the same economic goals, and the same desire for familial and individual success. Being ordinary is therefore a moral quality. This means, paradoxically, that ordinariness can only prove itself in exceptional individuals. To strive is virtuous, to fail is shameful; either way one’s ordinariness is subsumed to a greater drama. The drama at the center of middle class art is the plight of the exceptional individual demonstrating a Platonic ordinariness. It is hard to think of characters in novels who are not exceptional financially or morally. In Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove finance and morality go together. The novels of Eliot, Dickens, even those of the French realists unfold stories in which ordinary characters, by some exceptional moral quality, try to transcend their economic and historical situations. Howells called this story romantic and insisted on writing about the most mundane aspects of ordinary life. His novels were not about the exceptional who rise above the crowd but about ordinary people who do not transcend but stay on the ground. Howells described this divide between moral ideals and actual economic circumstance as “the infernal juggle of the mind. ” This contradiction at the heart of everyday life was what he wanted to depict. His design of characters and plots, even his sentences, develop continuously into further complexity as they discover the tensions and self-betrayal inherent in middle class optimism. “Discover” is the key term: Howells wrote in order to find out the truth about ordinary life, and the more he discovered the more his novels tended toward disjunction. In resisting the urge to reaffirm middle class morals, he was having not only a political argument with the dominant ideology of late-nineteenth century America but a formal argument with the conventional novel. Down the critical years, Howells’s trust in the novel form to do its own work has been difficult to see because his way of demonstrating it was so unusual. To the extent that his form was un-transcendent, descriptive rather than theoretical, it has been unapparent. My dissertation is an attempt to make evident and describe the working of Howells’s unapparent form. I have used a method of analysis congruent with his practice. I proceed as he wrote, historically, by following the unfolding events of his style and form.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Brian Seto McGrat
Chemical composition of pond waters on the ilands located in the Seto Inland Sea
No full textFreshwater ponds are found on a number of islands located in the Seto Inland Sea. The author made observation of the chemical properties of pond water at some of the ponds located on the islands in the western part of the Seto Inland Sea. The primary purpose of this survey was to know the effect of the "sea breeze" from the chlorine contents of pond water. Some of the surveyed ponds were utilized for irrigation. Almost all the surveyed ponds were relatively shallow, and dissolved oxygen was poor in the bottom layer. Chlorine contents were considerably lower than expected. Other chemical compositions and their contents in each pond were not extraordinary; they were of the same order as the average values reported by Dr. S. YOSHIMURA for the lake waters of Japan. The results of the observation and water analysis are shown in Table I.
It seemed that all the surveyed ponds could be utilized for the culture of freshwater fishes
Beginning of Universe through large field hybrid inflation
No full textRecent detection of B-mode polarization induced from tensor perturbations by the BICEP2 experiment implies the so-called large field inflation, where an inflaton field takes super-Planckian expectation value during inflation, at a high energy scale. We show however, if another inflation follows hybrid inflation, the hybrid inflation can generate a large tensor perturbation with not super-Planckian but Planckian field value. This scenario would relax the tension between BICEP2 and Planck concerning the tensor-to-scalar ratio, because a negative large running can also be obtained for a certain number of e-fold of the hybrid inflation. A natural interpretation of a large gravitational wave mode with or without the scalar spectral running might be multiple inflation in the early Universe
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